Community

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• Invite additional communities in Austin including sustainable/renewable energy, community bike projects, furniture making/woodworking, textile/clothing artists, community garden people, and crafts/trade experts who can give demonstrations or presentations on their knowledge and skills
• Outreach to a broader cultural spectrum of Austin via Spanish language media, neighborhood groups, community centers. Consider subsidizing ticket costs if purchased through schools or community centers.
• Several available stages for pre-scheduled presentations - Short (20-30 minutes), "introduction-to" topics (e.g. intro. to electronics, photovoltaic, welding or soldering, robotics, sound engineering, etc. giving broad-overview for newbies & kids
• Target Local Homeschool Groups/Families

• Young age range
  • Schools
    • Austin ISD http://austin.isd.tenet.edu/
    • Surrounding school districts
• Maker interest groups
  • University groups
    • Lab groups/teams
    • for example: Robot Automation Society @ http://ras.ece.utexas.edu/
    • Professional/academic organizations, groups, etc.
  • DorkBot
  • GeekAustin http://geekaustin.org/
  • Make
  • workatjelly
  • barcamp/unconference http://barcamp.org/
  • [swxsw] http://sxsw.com/
  • Film festival scene
  • Austin music scene
• Community service & volunteer organizations
• Austin Electrical Vehicle evangelicalism?
• [Carpooling] roundups
• Bussing schedules and related [transportation]
• Austin Chamber of Conference http://www.austin-chamber.org/